The original owner was William Waldorf Astor, who the AIA Guide describes as a “major landowner in this community.” The building is described as “bland but handsome, and the copper cornice is both potent and elegant.”

Block 1167 / Lot 11

2141-57 Broadway @ 75th St.

Astor Apartments

Built: 1905; Addition to North in 1914

Architect: Clinton & Russell (original) and addition by Peabody, Nilson, & Brown

Proposed RSD-West 80-81st Streets HD extension

Block 1890 / Lot 47

307-309 West 82nd Street – nominated by FAB

Built: ca. 1892

Architect: not yet known

The AIA Guide makes mention of this Roman brick row house’s richly intricate form roofs, dormers, chimney pots, finials, and colonettes.

West Side Republican Club

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Broadway b/w 83rd and 84th Streets

Built: not yet known

Architect: J.A. Schweinfurth

Stern says of this building in New York 1900 that it is an elegant American Georgian design, built of light pink “wash brick.” In the tradition of political clubs, it more resembled that of Harvard’s club than that of Tammany’s on West 14th Street.

2322 Broadway – Morris Bros.

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2322 Broadway @ 84th Street

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Architect:

Home to Morris Brothers store for the past 27 years. With their departure, it is understood that a national chain store(s) is/are being solicited to fill the vacancy.

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West End avenue b/w 84th and 85th Streets

Built: 1894

Architect: Frank Miles Day

508 & 510 West End Avenue

Heralded by New York 1900as, “the most significant exemplars of the Dutch Revival … Day’s houses were unique for their combination of precisely observed historical details and picturesque massing; they represented the Composite Era yet simultaneously looked back to the romantic Cosmopolitanism in which the West End’s architecture was steeped.”

* Matching houses can be found at 514 West End Avenue (photos not yet available).

Photo from New York 1900

A former hotel with one of the most “vigorous” Beaux Arts facades along Broadway, Bretton Hall shares its architect with other hotels on B’way, such as the Cumberland, the Thomas Jefferson and Spencer Arms hotels. Recent rehab work includes a new replacement cornice designed by architect John C. Calderon.

Block 1233 / Lot 16

2342 Broadway @ 85th Street

Bretton Hall

Built: 1903

Architect: Harry Mulliken

West End Avenue, west side between 85th-86th Street

Proposed RSD-WEA Historic District extension

Proposed new building would cause these rowhouses to be demolished.

Built: not yet known

Architects: not yet known

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272-280 West 86th Street b/w West End and B’way

Built: not yet known

Architect: not yet known

272-280 West 86th Street

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330 West 86th Street

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330 West 86th Street b/w West End and Riverside

Built: not yet known

Architect: not yet known

Beyond documentation as the subject of recent legal action concerning tenants’ development intentions and the intent of the City’s UDAAP process, the history this building remains unknown.

Ballet Hispanico

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167-169 West 89th Street @ Amsterdam Avenue

Built: 1892

Architect: Frank Rooke

Originally carriage houses, this Romanesque revival structure was rehabilitated in 1989 by Buck & Cane to serve as the home of the minority-oriented dance group. The AIA Guide declares it to be “modest, but the arch is enough.”

As Upper West Side settlement extended North along the Bloomingdale Road in the 19th century, a cluster of houses had grown around St. Michael's Episcopal Church (1805) at 99th St. Called Bloomingdale Village, and the settlement’s nearest Catholic services were at St. Paul the Apostle (1858) on 59th

St. or Annunciation (1853) on 131st St. By 1867 the Catholic community of the Bloomingdale Village wanted a church of their own, and began appealing to the Archdiocese of New York City for a pastor to establish a parish. The structure they commissioned is built of richly carved pink Milford granite, with beautiful Munich stained glass windows. The AIA Guidedescribes the building as having a forbidding Gothic Revival façade, but that it is more pleasing within, particularly its hammer-beamed ceiling and roof.

Block 1868 / Lot 29

740 Amsterdam Avenue @ 96th Street

Built: 1898

Architect: T.H. Poole

Holy Name of Jesus Church

According to New York 1960, the RNA House "housed 208 families in a structure reminiscent of I.M. Pei's Kips Bay Plaza. Although the building's front was described by Norval White and Elliot Willensky as a ‘concrete beehive of a façade,’ it rather effectively honored the wall of this important crosstown street, despite being slightly set back from the building."

Block 1226 / Lot 45

150-160 W. 96th St b/w Col. and Amst.

RNA House

Built: 1967

Architect: Edelbaum & Webster

AIA Guide says “concrete balconies, private with cheek walls, exposed concrete floor slabs, and floor-to-floor window assemblies, contribute to a better-than-average effort.”

Block 1226

733 Amsterdam Avenue @ 96th Street

New Amsterdam

Built: 1971

Architect: Gruzen & Partners